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Solana's outage was caused by a single node misconfiguration, which took out the chain for a whole 6 hours. The Nakamoto Coefficient (NC) is “an accurate way to measure the decentralization of the project” It suggests the fact that a blockchain’s robustness cannot be measured with a simple score — there are deeper aspects, both socially and technically, that must be considered. With how blockchain currently works, if enough nodes gather together, they can effectively overwrite the chain, roll back transactions and control the network as a whole.